Evaluating the effects of eating disorder memoirs on readers' eating attitudes and behaviors

International Journal of Eating Disorders

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 418-425

  Thomas, Jennifer J ^a   Judge, Abigail M ^b   Brownell, Kelly D ^a   Vartanian, Lenny R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Eating attitudes; Eating behaviors; Eating disorder memoirs; Glamorization; Normalization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EATING DISORDER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; READING; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; READING; SELF CARE; SICK ROLE; THINNESS; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS; WRITING;

EID: 33745200986     PISSN: 02763478     EISSN: 1098108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eat.20239     Document Type: Article

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